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Let us know what is really bothering you. Maybe we can help! Remember no matter how tough life gets the people around you are willing to care, help, and love you. Just reach out when you are ready. Peace bro

Thanks for the feedback "ZEN AF" but you are proving my point. Classic online disinhibition in full effect here. Have some respect and share joy and you will notice you will be happier and your life will get better. I'm willing to bet if you have time to be nasty on this forum there are many things in your life you'd wish to improve. The solution to all your problems is kindness and love. Hope it goes well for you.

On point, you really do have great ideas and a skill with words. I would add that while silence can imply agreement, we also need to practice not automatically reacting to things we disagree with. This is a classic toxic parenting and leadership style where negative behavior is accidentally rewarded with attention. When a child or team member learns that acting out is the only way to get a response, they keep doing it. A good parent or leader intentionally reacts to good behavior with more enthusiasm and attention than bad. Perhaps this is a skill we can practice cultivating here so that this forum can become less toxic and also helps us be better members of our communities IRL. If we encourage good behavior, instead of ignore it, maybe by asking genuine questions, we get more of it and actually learn about where other users are coming from in greater detail. This is what collaborative and constructive group dynamics looks like. There's a great short book by an Australian author called The Advice Trap by Michael Bungay Stanier that talks about this I really liked. Thanks for your time @Natasha Tori Maru!

I appreciate the sentiment and your commitment to the truth. However, I wonder if you are this bold in real life. If you treat people offline with more restraint, then this unfiltered online persona isn't actually genuine. True authenticity means treating people online with the same respect we show them face-to-face. Let's not lose sight of the fact that real truth is ultimately loving and beautiful, not intentionally harsh.

Just for a different perspective than what's politically correct in liberal circles but cheering for women's advancement is cheering for an sub replacement fertility rate. Who cares if women can finally be doctors and politicians when there aren't any people left to govern or heal? Nativity: Canada now has more deaths than births and one province just broke a record https://share.google/dMTqmHtAwHp8iqceK

Definitely not, she'll probably never forget it either

https://www.practicalphilosophy.club/ If anyone wants to discuss these topics IRL check out this practical philosophy club in a city near you. It operates worldwide, free to join, and it's where regular people talk about philosophical subjects every week without the dry academic jargon. Its a lot of fun and great for people who are into self development and deep philosophical discussions.

Glad you thought the clip was good too!

Excellent post and something that is needed to be heard on online forums. Online disinhibition effect brings out the worst in us. The nameless and faceless nature of the internet makes us forget we are talking to a human who is a lot more alike to us than different. Collaboration on ideas, questions (instead of brow beating), and "yes and" statements are much more persuasive than arguing. Argument merely increases defensiveness and inhibiting true learning and change.

That's great! cut out junk food and notice up to 80% of your suffering may just just simply disappear. Junkies take heroin to make all their problems disappear for a short while. Proof that what we put in our bodies changes our outlook/lives. Proper nutrition is the healthy and sustainable version of having better outlook and brain function.

Yes acceptance is essential too. My point is that the mind doesn't suffer as much if the body is healthy. If you are already have a healthy lifestyle ignore my comment.

Great question because we all feel like this at some point in our lives. Plenty of exercise, proper diet, and consistent sleep are the first things you should do. This helps your body and mind to be in good health and resilience to face the challenges of life.

Sorry to hear that you are going through this. If everyone could get easy sex than it wouldn't be a thing worth having, or flaunting. The good news is that even the most desperate of people find partners. Don't give up and eventually you might find someone going through a similar life circumstance who you can relate to. The longer you have to wait the more rewarding the pay off will be.

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Exactly, Liberals should support the cause wholeheartedly

https://theonion.com/nation-in-love-with-girl-from-record-store-1819566067/ Hilarious article from the onion about the entire nation being in love with a girl from the record store.

Even the dumbest and ugliest people find partners. In fact they are the ones who have the most kids sometimes. Now if you want someone who is way out of your league, well that's takes work.

Social skills are needed when you meet your spouse's friends and family too

No disrespect to your bird but the wing tips disappearing in the video is normal?

The #1 reason governments allow immigrants to enter rich countries is to increase the otherwise aging and declining population due to low birthrates. The members of the rich countries refuse to do menial work. Immigrants from poor countries are more willing to do unsatisfying work. Politicians don't broadcast this message because it blames the local voter base. The truth is rich countries desperately need immigrants to avoid the most pertinent threat to it's survival: low birth rates and aging population.

Why is there an AI bird video on @Leo Gura's blog?

True. Criticism of the government by it's citizens is often misguided, comes from ignorance, and does more harm to society than good. But I'll grant it that citizens should have the right to criticize a bad government, and this is something that isn't publically allowed in China. They are playing 5D lol. I tend to agree but that could be because we were born in the West. Polls suggest Chinese people prefer to live in China and why wouldn't they? China has cheaper cars and houses and food, higher home ownership, better and cheaper education, much better health care, Lower crime across the board. And tech billionaires don't control the media and the narrative. The only thing the Chinese government asks it's citizens is to be much less involved in politics.

Yes, to attract a high quality partner a man has to also be high quality. It's called being the "whole package" - money, style, social skills, looks, personality, etc. Pick up trains some of those skills. Done in the wrong way, pick up can be unhealthy, toxic, harmful, and debased.